Roger Green read The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe before it was published and suggested several minor but notable changes:<\/p>\n
“Being rather more in touch with contemporary children, Gree was able to suggest a number of small alterations and improvements, ranging from the deletion of “Crikey!’ as a common exclamation among the young to the omission of bird’s-nesing from among the Pevense children’s occupations – Lewis being unaware of the revolution against ‘egg-collectors’ achieved by Arthur Ransome”<\/p>\n
-Green, Hooper, C.S. Lewis: A Biography (taken from Gyler’s The Company They Keep, p. 210)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Well now, how nasty of young Lucy to go raiding poor defenseless bird nests and carting away their defenseless young as trophies.<\/p>\n
As someone once said, “You can’t swing a dead cat around here without hitting some animal rights activist!”.<\/p>\n
Just kidding. Oh well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Roger Green read The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe before it was published and suggested several minor but notable changes: “Being rather more in touch with contemporary children, Gree was able to suggest a number of small alterations and improvements, ranging from the deletion of “Crikey!’ as a common exclamation among the young to … <\/p>\n
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